Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...some unknown way, and responsible, not to the people, but to the higher body. The executive was an officer, called sometimes the Dean, and sometimes the President, elected by the higher body, and holding office during good behavior. That a government so arbitrary, and so entirely beyond the control of the people, should have endured as long as it did, is astonishing...
...very obscure, but the most recent investigations seem to show that they came from the land of the rising sun, and found, in the country of the mound-builders, a hopelessly savage people. With the aid of the magic power which they drew from the sun, they gained complete control of the whole region, but they were at first unable to civilize the natives. The aboriginal race had sunk to such a depth of degradation that even the divine power of the gods could not of itself raise them. When Munnee and Boshor discovered this, they spat upon the earth...
...Hall" was, as "A Director" has claimed, valid only for a year, and we are now left with merely a general understanding that the Hall is to be managed to the best of their ability by ten or twelve officers, who are subject in some undefined respects to the control of the Corporation...
...beneath the hearth. In the middle of a very tempestuous night, that of January 24, 1764, the fire broke out, and as it was vacation, and but two or three persons were left in that part of Massachusetts. Hall most distant from Harvard, the flames when discovered were beyond control. Massachusetts, Stoughton, and the then new Hollis were all in great danger; but the town engine came, "the gentlemen of the General Court, among them his Excellency the Governor, were very active," and the fire was confined to Harvard. But that was gone; its library, the books of John Harvard...
...carrying it into execution; and this, it must be confessed, is a serious drawback. If the change in the construction of these bridges should be made, it would be done at the expense of the city of Cambridge or of the State, according as one or the other has control of the bridges. Neither would have any advantage in making the change, and unless a very strong petition could be presented to the proper authorities it would be useless to attempt to induce them to do anything about it. Nevertheless, the construction of the arches would be of so much...